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Chicago examiner the best newspaper for the best homes i vol xii no 233 a m saturday Chicago september 19 1914 saturday beclswrwj in v ti pausut offica price one cent ta ss^iss allies surround 40,000 germans great auto peace parade to-day support of motor club is given to peace run six hundred members pledge themselves at banquet for movement to end war flags distributed for kenosha trip more than 600 members of the Chicago motor club repre senting m the fullest sense the motor car owners of cliicago and cook county gave enthusiastic and unanimous indorsement last night to the international peace movement inaugurated by william randolph hearst through his newspapers and one and all pledged their co-opera itou m to-day's monster automobile peace parade from Chicago to ken osha this action was taken at the.ban vet of the Chicago motor club held i the new southern hotel mtthlgari senue and thirteenth street the attendance double that at any previ ous gathering was due to the appeal sent out by president charles m hayee asking the members to take action ln # the interests of the inter national peace movement and the automobile parade so spontaneous was the response that the arrangements for the diners uad to be increased at the last mo ment so as to provide seats and din ners for several hundred additional guests but the hotel management was equal to the occasion to bring oit friends besides pledging themselves tc do everything possible to help along the international peace movement begin ning with participation m to-day's interstate parade the members of the club pledged themselves that each would telephone at least three motor car owning friends before midnight and ask him or her to join the parade to kenosha rounds of cheers were given with nthusia/sm when president hayes produced a pile of several thousand peace flags which he explained had been donated by the Chicago exam iner for the parade and which were at the disposition of all members who intended to have cars m line to lay at the rate of two flags for each this will be the greatest auto mobile parade ever held m any city said president hayes not only by reason of the large number of cars m line and the size beauty and speed of the cars but primarily because of the greatness of the cause m which this parade is held every owner of a motor car m Chicago ought to be proud to use or . to lend his car m this cause this parade places motorists m the front rank of a great movement for world peace m which the people of Illinois ud wisconsin have joined with en usiasm livkiiuvt is timkli such a demonstration as this m ' half of peace is more than timely : ire la a large population on the ; i.-th shore and m tlie northern tier 1 Illinois counties and the southern ! er of of wisconsin counties and ivy ire all awaiting this parade to sprees their enthusiastic support of ie international peace movement owners of motor cars and motor . eles and any who can get the use if such vehicles for the day cannot out them to better use than to join m this mammoth parade m celebra tion of the international peace move ment inaugurated by mr hearst through his newspapers at the chief table sat president charles m hayes vice president e clinton adams secretary roy s ash hy treasurer harry t hollingshead attorney frank 1 childs d rectors r c cook w e rftainaker j frank uje-yer walter c lorens peter ji j hoffman christian f wiehe and r i french repulse 10 nil charges invaders beaten back seven miles on 17th attack on rheims is frustrated teutons bombarding belfort special cable to the examiner london sept 19 william ma well correspondent t>f the examiner and the london telegraph in a dispatch early to-day say3 that a french officer just re turned from the scene of the battle of the aisne re ports that one co.ps o the enemy 40,000 men has been surrounded by the english and frencn near the aisne ar.d their position seemed hopeless when the officer left a flag of truce had been sent demanding the sur render of the german corps but it was rejected the fight was then con tinued relentlessly with no result up to the hour of the officer's departure another correspondent wiring from behind the allies lines says an american army officer estimates the german dead in the center of the battle line at 15,000 or 20,000 a large proportion of whom were bayoneted by the sengalese and tur cos special cable to the examiner copenhagen sept 18 the situation of the german troops in the battle on tjje western frontier is good especially in the center where the germans have received substantial reinforcements says a berlin dispatch the dispatch adds that the end of the battle is expected soon paris sept is â€” it is now possible to give the first details of the terrific bat tle of the aisne â€” th g battle in the history the world it is a story of a dead duel of big guns of furious attacks of terrific counter-attacks hand-to-hand clashes and bay onet charges and of frightful car nage it is a story of a succes ; on battles which have been fought now on one part of the line and now o-tj the other hour r hour for every hour of t â– t ., prince of wales is barred from service london sept 18 â€” an official statement was made to-night that the prince of wales has applied to go to the front as he has not completed his military training field marshal earl kitchener secretary of state for war replied that it was not desirable that the prince should go into active service resolutions by motor club give peace plan aid 7he following resolutions proposed by president charles m hayes were unanimously a dopted at the annual banquet of the Chicago motor club a t the xew southern hotel last nig jit whereas there is now and lias been existing for six weeks or more a terrible war on the part of the leading nations of europe m which thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of property are being sacrificed and whereas william randolph hearst through his newspapers has inaugurated an international peace movement and an anti-war demonstration m connection with which it is proposed to hold a gi gantic automobile parade from Chicago to kenosha and from racine to kenosha to-morrow saturday m connection with a great peace celebration and peace-loving meeting at kenosha m which the mayor and all other city officials will co-operate and whereac the members of the Chicago motor club m session at this regular meeting at the new southern hotel desire to co operate m every possible way to make this most worthy movement a success be it resolved by the membership of the Chicago motor club that we unanimously indorse this international peace movement and co operate m the automobile parade and that this resolution be placed on the minutes and a copy sent to the Chicago examiner i war makes enemy of queen mary's aunt england stops 15,000 annuity of mecklenburg duchess special cisle to th fxamlntr london sept is â€” the briti.-h government has decided to suspend i the annuity of 515.000 received by the i duchess of mecklenburg-strelitz a j member of the british royal family j who by marriage became a german i subject the question was raised m parliament to-day whether m view ! of the proclamation prohibiting the i payment of money to any persons who lived in an enemy's country even though payment arose out of a con j tract made before the war the gov j ernment was proposing to make any i further payments to the duchess | lloyd george replied that the pay [ ments had been suspended the dow j eger duchess of mecklenburg-stre j litz is a sister of the late duke of j cambridge consequently a grand ; daughter of george 111 and first i cousin of queen victoria she was j born m 1522 and was married at j buckingham palace m 1543 to fred j crich hereditary grand duke of i mecklenburg-strelitz she is an aunt ] of queen mary louvain art works saved say germans official dispatches assert troops protected them berlin sept is via loudon â€” the norddeutsche allgemeine zeitung publishes official dispatches from the german administration of louvain saying that though from a fifth to a sixth part of the city is m ruins the majority of the public buildings have been preserved including the beau tiful city hall regarding which there has been so much discussion the dispatches say that the damage to st peter's cathedral was such that the building can be restored easily and the art works were protected by german soldiers kaiser censures son for courting danger members of crown prince's staff wounded try artillery fire special cablt tn tlie examiner geneva sept ls â€” the k.ti.s.-r : who is stnl m laxemturrtr has se v erely reprimanded crown prince j frederick william for exposing his | staff uselessly to artillery lire m or i der to see the battle better several i of the staff are reported io have been i badly wounded all the german fort7'esses long - the line from near basel to cologne and , also on the frontier at metz and j thionville where the fortifications have been dismantled are being re fortified m haste m anticipation of | an expected attack at berlin and at the principal sea ports and the big industrial twons placards reading we want peace posted during the night have been torn down by the police the german people are beginning to know the truth the german news agencies and newspapers neglect the operations m france magnifying the german victories m east prussia fall of maubeuge gonfirmed in london terrific bombardment of twelve days destroyed three forts special cable to the examiner london sept is the times cor respondent at boulogne anounces the fall of maubeuge m the following dispatch maubeuge fell on september 7 the investment began on august 25 forts de boussois des essarts and de cerfontaine and the earth works of rocq were destroyed by heavy artillery the town suffered severe ly from the bombardment which con tinued with great violence for twelve days more than 1,000 shells fell m one night near the railway station and the rue de france was partially destroyed at 11:50 o'clock september 7 a wqhite flag was hoisted on the church tower the german forces marched m at 7 o'clock that evening poincare quit paris to perfect strategy stockholm sept 18 the reason for president poincare's departure from paris was according to a well informed swedish newspaper corre spondent at bordeaux that general joffre had declared that so long as the government remained m paris the capital would be the objective of the germans and he would be com pelled to change his whole strategical plan m order to defend paris should paris however preserve her chief role as an ordinary fortified place it would serve his strategical plans ex cellently montenegrins now occupying goradza kojil sept is â€” a telegram from cetiaje states thai tlie montenegrins have o^-jupi-'-u ooradza about thirty miles rom sarajevo capital ol bos nia bride groom bandit robs two offices in the loop mere boy armed with two pis tols battles with girl in first national bank building after forcing her to give up money a moving picture robbery was staged by an eighteen-year-old ban dit in tha first national bank build ing yesterday it was so true to the screen thrillers that only two persons â€” the youthful desperado and the good-natured woman he robbed at the point of a pistol in her employer's office knew that it was a really truly sure enough robbery one of the scenes in the moving if not movie drama which gave it a farcical turn was enacted in the of fice of charles f norton & co on ! the tenth floor where the robber took refuge after ihe alarm was given mr wugc-il ' bt_*y__ng brother and two young and very pretty stenog raphers were in the office v.-hen the young bandit with his guns and para phernalia arrived they sat for an hour and a half under the cover of his weapons believing they were play ing a part for some funny reel only the arrival of the police dispelled the illusion who bov baxdit is henry j fernekes was the boy bandit he was eighteen years old last january he has been rooming at 1349 north la salle avenue he says his father is proprietor of a summer hotel at long lake valpa raiso ind the city directory how ever lists his mother as mrs llay fernekes widow of peter c fer nekes 2252 fremont street mrs fer nekes is said to have moved from that address the examiner on questioning young fernekes got from him the admission that his parents were the notorious pete and lizzie who were proprie tors of the village inn a hotel and cafe situated at 53 west erie street which was closed by the police about two years ago mrs fernekes ligured prominently during the police upheaval about that time in which a number of police heads were discharged from the de partment under sensational charges young fernekes who ls about 5 feet 3 inches tall slightly built and an innocent big brown-eyed boy in appearance says he was a pupil at the lakevlew high school for a term at the john marshall law school for a short term a clerk in the office of caswell & healy lawyers and real estate dealers and then with the in dependent pneumatic tool company on michigan avenue until a short time ago when he turned bandit bridegroom op two weeks two weeks ago he eloped to st joe mich and married lulu wood ward sixteen years old the daugh ter of herbert woodward of 13g west monroe street valparaiso ind with whom his wife is living this then is our hero who started j out yesterday with a little suitcase looking for adventure the suitcase contained two pistols â€” a magazine pistol of late pattern and a big revol ver a handkerchief that might be used as a mask cotton batting and strips of linen to make gags a long piece of rope some tools and a cam i era he drifted into the first national bank building as the first of the j tenants were arriving and began to stroll through the corridors looking j for the best place to rob disguised ix spectacles on the tenth floor he found the of fices of robert l north a real estate i dealer at no 1017 he saw miss ella j jones stenographer for mr north ' arrive miss jones is forty a trifle j given to embonpoint is good-natured : and looks it she entered the office of mr north to prepare for the w_rk ; of tl day she has been employed germans are driven back by russians on border teutons retreating al along austrian front says war of fice czar merges armies for stroke in gaiicia london sept 19 â€” the correspondent of the daily telegraph in rome telegraphs that he has learned ou high authority that six corps of german troops have been or dered fiom belgium and france to the russian border â– j ox d on . i sept 18 ~- ' the renter telegram compa ny has received from petrograd an official statement issued by the gen eral staff which says : on the front in east prussia i general rennenkampf has definite j ly arrested the german offensive at ! several points the germans are falling back all along the austrian front pur i suit of the enemy continues the russians have approached the defensive positions of siniava jaroslav and przemysl cossacks lead advance reports received from petrograd to-day say that the russians have gained important successes over the austrian rear guard the whole of j the austro-russiari border between | yusevoff and annapolis is reported to be overrun with cossacks who are leading the russian advance the russian army now in gaiicia ! will be left there to complete its work for according to a rome dis patch an army of 900,000 russians | is marching into central poland fol lowed by another army of 2,000,000 l while a third army also aggregating 2,000.000 is coming from more dis tant regions and will reach the front in october another rome dispatch i says the number of cannon captured j by the russians from the austrians i is now placed at 1,000 two armies merge the combined russian armies of i general ruzzky and general brouss ilolf according to petrograd dis patches to-day pressed relentlessly i against the beaten and disorganized | and in part disarmed forces of aus 1 tria west of the san river the austrians resisted with courage born of despair the fighting in that theater of war is necessarily slow business because of the nature of the swampy field it has prevented the austrians from ex tricating and making effective their artillery and on the other hand it has prevented the russians from following up their advantage as speedily as otherwise they would do attack _. i s'i'rian enter the russian forces are attacking the austrian center which is report ' ed to hold the line betw~een przemysl 1 and cracow efforts thus far to dis ' lodge the center have not succeeded ! but great losses have been inflicted ! on the austrians a dispatch from vienna says it is admitted that the russians j have occupied a part of the defenses south of przemysl but so far they have been unable to make any grave impression upon tl main d eases russian coat of anns battle of aisne told in official reports of foes allies progressing on right wing says french statement â– special cable to the examiner rj aris sept 18 â€” an official statement issued by ' the french war office at jl p m says there is no change in the situation except hat we have continued our progress on the left ping and that there is a general lull in the battle the afternoon announcement issued at s p __., said throughout the day of the 17th the battle con ontinued along the whole front from the oise to the woevre without important change in the situation at any point â€” on our left wing â€” on the heights north of the aisne we have made slight progress against certain points three offensive attacks undertaken by the germans against the british army have failed between craonne and rheims we ourselves have repulsed some extremely violent counter attacks made in the night the enemy tried in vain to take the offensive against rheims â€” at the center â€” from rheims to the argonne the enemy has strengthened himself by building important fortifications and has adopted a purely defensive attitude east of the argonne in the woevre district the situation is unchanged â€” on our right wing â€” in lorraine and the vosges the enemy occupies positions organized for defensive action near the frontier french coat â€¢/ arm germans advance slowly but surely berlin officials claim special cable to the examiner i rxerlix sept is by wireless via sayville r h i â€” official announcement was made at â– *â€”* headqua rters to-day that the german army is advancing si owly but surely in the battle which raging i n france the statement follows the battle between the oise and the meuse still continues there are sure indications that the enemy's forces are failing the french attempt to cut through the ger man right wing was broken down without no __________________ table exertion on the german side the german army is advancing slowly but surely a sortie from verdun on the right bank of the meuse was most easily repulsed the general staff states that all the german airships are coming up to expectations in long and dangerous flights some were damaged but all of them were repaired none was destroyed or captured by the enemy german coat of arms envoy to u.s asks denial of austrian army loss xew yore sept is 101 i editor Chicago examiner i have the honor to forward to you a statement 1 wish to make on the false news and rumors spread about the austrian campaign in ga liria and russian poland i should be very much obliged by your kindly jiviiuj it in the hearst papers the g reatest possible publicity yours very truly sgncd c dumba i and _,Â». austro-hungarian ambassador dr dumba's statement follows : â– com i to i most i utically i the i reports i via i london from i milan i a i open b ugen i peters i the austrian i and i to quote some i to come from i lost the i dead i prison i â€” â€” from russian poland succeeded m uniting and rallying for a new fight i do not think that any body endowed with a little com mon sense can for one moment believe that an army of 1,000,000 having lost 450,000 men should be able immediately to rally for a new tight according to official (?) st petersburg news the austrians wl>ile receding and hotly pur sued to lemberg had alresdy lost about 200,000 men there was hardly anybody left to tell the tale the steel forts of the first-class fortress of nlchail owsk had been silenced and stormed with incredible bravery by the russians in reality xichailowsk is a small village with 307 inhabitants where r.e centltuiod on 4th page 3d column continued on 7th page 2d cj:smn continued on 2d ge 3d column continued on 2d page 7th coluiein austrian coat of arms <-â€”â€” 5e ess *\ Chicago and vicinity fair ftyfbcfo f to-day an probably to-morrow t not xi much change m temperature gentle k + fic ~ ~ varlnble wind ~"^ ranee of temperature yesterday base.c2 / highest .' 73 ball y \ lowest 66 joy jl j average 69 with tke first fall days the average housekeeper's energy increases ten fold she begins to turn over m her mind tlie ways and means of lengthening next summer's outing and adding a few more pleasures there's no easier way than to start a vaca tion bank account with the money that extra room will bring you this winter a room to rent ad m the examiner's want ad and real estate section will hnd you a desirable tenant extra

Chicago examiner the best newspaper for the best homes i vol xii no 233 a m saturday Chicago september 19 1914 saturday beclswrwj in v ti pausut offica price one cent ta ss^iss allies surround 40,000 germans great auto peace parade to-day support of motor club is given to peace run six hundred members pledge themselves at banquet for movement to end war flags distributed for kenosha trip more than 600 members of the Chicago motor club repre senting m the fullest sense the motor car owners of cliicago and cook county gave enthusiastic and unanimous indorsement last night to the international peace movement inaugurated by william randolph hearst through his newspapers and one and all pledged their co-opera itou m to-day's monster automobile peace parade from Chicago to ken osha this action was taken at the.ban vet of the Chicago motor club held i the new southern hotel mtthlgari senue and thirteenth street the attendance double that at any previ ous gathering was due to the appeal sent out by president charles m hayee asking the members to take action ln # the interests of the inter national peace movement and the automobile parade so spontaneous was the response that the arrangements for the diners uad to be increased at the last mo ment so as to provide seats and din ners for several hundred additional guests but the hotel management was equal to the occasion to bring oit friends besides pledging themselves tc do everything possible to help along the international peace movement begin ning with participation m to-day's interstate parade the members of the club pledged themselves that each would telephone at least three motor car owning friends before midnight and ask him or her to join the parade to kenosha rounds of cheers were given with nthusia/sm when president hayes produced a pile of several thousand peace flags which he explained had been donated by the Chicago exam iner for the parade and which were at the disposition of all members who intended to have cars m line to lay at the rate of two flags for each this will be the greatest auto mobile parade ever held m any city said president hayes not only by reason of the large number of cars m line and the size beauty and speed of the cars but primarily because of the greatness of the cause m which this parade is held every owner of a motor car m Chicago ought to be proud to use or . to lend his car m this cause this parade places motorists m the front rank of a great movement for world peace m which the people of Illinois ud wisconsin have joined with en usiasm livkiiuvt is timkli such a demonstration as this m ' half of peace is more than timely : ire la a large population on the ; i.-th shore and m tlie northern tier 1 Illinois counties and the southern ! er of of wisconsin counties and ivy ire all awaiting this parade to sprees their enthusiastic support of ie international peace movement owners of motor cars and motor . eles and any who can get the use if such vehicles for the day cannot out them to better use than to join m this mammoth parade m celebra tion of the international peace move ment inaugurated by mr hearst through his newspapers at the chief table sat president charles m hayes vice president e clinton adams secretary roy s ash hy treasurer harry t hollingshead attorney frank 1 childs d rectors r c cook w e rftainaker j frank uje-yer walter c lorens peter ji j hoffman christian f wiehe and r i french repulse 10 nil charges invaders beaten back seven miles on 17th attack on rheims is frustrated teutons bombarding belfort special cable to the examiner london sept 19 william ma well correspondent t>f the examiner and the london telegraph in a dispatch early to-day say3 that a french officer just re turned from the scene of the battle of the aisne re ports that one co.ps o the enemy 40,000 men has been surrounded by the english and frencn near the aisne ar.d their position seemed hopeless when the officer left a flag of truce had been sent demanding the sur render of the german corps but it was rejected the fight was then con tinued relentlessly with no result up to the hour of the officer's departure another correspondent wiring from behind the allies lines says an american army officer estimates the german dead in the center of the battle line at 15,000 or 20,000 a large proportion of whom were bayoneted by the sengalese and tur cos special cable to the examiner copenhagen sept 18 the situation of the german troops in the battle on tjje western frontier is good especially in the center where the germans have received substantial reinforcements says a berlin dispatch the dispatch adds that the end of the battle is expected soon paris sept is â€” it is now possible to give the first details of the terrific bat tle of the aisne â€” th g battle in the history the world it is a story of a dead duel of big guns of furious attacks of terrific counter-attacks hand-to-hand clashes and bay onet charges and of frightful car nage it is a story of a succes ; on battles which have been fought now on one part of the line and now o-tj the other hour r hour for every hour of t â– t ., prince of wales is barred from service london sept 18 â€” an official statement was made to-night that the prince of wales has applied to go to the front as he has not completed his military training field marshal earl kitchener secretary of state for war replied that it was not desirable that the prince should go into active service resolutions by motor club give peace plan aid 7he following resolutions proposed by president charles m hayes were unanimously a dopted at the annual banquet of the Chicago motor club a t the xew southern hotel last nig jit whereas there is now and lias been existing for six weeks or more a terrible war on the part of the leading nations of europe m which thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of property are being sacrificed and whereas william randolph hearst through his newspapers has inaugurated an international peace movement and an anti-war demonstration m connection with which it is proposed to hold a gi gantic automobile parade from Chicago to kenosha and from racine to kenosha to-morrow saturday m connection with a great peace celebration and peace-loving meeting at kenosha m which the mayor and all other city officials will co-operate and whereac the members of the Chicago motor club m session at this regular meeting at the new southern hotel desire to co operate m every possible way to make this most worthy movement a success be it resolved by the membership of the Chicago motor club that we unanimously indorse this international peace movement and co operate m the automobile parade and that this resolution be placed on the minutes and a copy sent to the Chicago examiner i war makes enemy of queen mary's aunt england stops 15,000 annuity of mecklenburg duchess special cisle to th fxamlntr london sept is â€” the briti.-h government has decided to suspend i the annuity of 515.000 received by the i duchess of mecklenburg-strelitz a j member of the british royal family j who by marriage became a german i subject the question was raised m parliament to-day whether m view ! of the proclamation prohibiting the i payment of money to any persons who lived in an enemy's country even though payment arose out of a con j tract made before the war the gov j ernment was proposing to make any i further payments to the duchess | lloyd george replied that the pay [ ments had been suspended the dow j eger duchess of mecklenburg-stre j litz is a sister of the late duke of j cambridge consequently a grand ; daughter of george 111 and first i cousin of queen victoria she was j born m 1522 and was married at j buckingham palace m 1543 to fred j crich hereditary grand duke of i mecklenburg-strelitz she is an aunt ] of queen mary louvain art works saved say germans official dispatches assert troops protected them berlin sept is via loudon â€” the norddeutsche allgemeine zeitung publishes official dispatches from the german administration of louvain saying that though from a fifth to a sixth part of the city is m ruins the majority of the public buildings have been preserved including the beau tiful city hall regarding which there has been so much discussion the dispatches say that the damage to st peter's cathedral was such that the building can be restored easily and the art works were protected by german soldiers kaiser censures son for courting danger members of crown prince's staff wounded try artillery fire special cablt tn tlie examiner geneva sept ls â€” the k.ti.s.-r : who is stnl m laxemturrtr has se v erely reprimanded crown prince j frederick william for exposing his | staff uselessly to artillery lire m or i der to see the battle better several i of the staff are reported io have been i badly wounded all the german fort7'esses long - the line from near basel to cologne and , also on the frontier at metz and j thionville where the fortifications have been dismantled are being re fortified m haste m anticipation of | an expected attack at berlin and at the principal sea ports and the big industrial twons placards reading we want peace posted during the night have been torn down by the police the german people are beginning to know the truth the german news agencies and newspapers neglect the operations m france magnifying the german victories m east prussia fall of maubeuge gonfirmed in london terrific bombardment of twelve days destroyed three forts special cable to the examiner london sept is the times cor respondent at boulogne anounces the fall of maubeuge m the following dispatch maubeuge fell on september 7 the investment began on august 25 forts de boussois des essarts and de cerfontaine and the earth works of rocq were destroyed by heavy artillery the town suffered severe ly from the bombardment which con tinued with great violence for twelve days more than 1,000 shells fell m one night near the railway station and the rue de france was partially destroyed at 11:50 o'clock september 7 a wqhite flag was hoisted on the church tower the german forces marched m at 7 o'clock that evening poincare quit paris to perfect strategy stockholm sept 18 the reason for president poincare's departure from paris was according to a well informed swedish newspaper corre spondent at bordeaux that general joffre had declared that so long as the government remained m paris the capital would be the objective of the germans and he would be com pelled to change his whole strategical plan m order to defend paris should paris however preserve her chief role as an ordinary fortified place it would serve his strategical plans ex cellently montenegrins now occupying goradza kojil sept is â€” a telegram from cetiaje states thai tlie montenegrins have o^-jupi-'-u ooradza about thirty miles rom sarajevo capital ol bos nia bride groom bandit robs two offices in the loop mere boy armed with two pis tols battles with girl in first national bank building after forcing her to give up money a moving picture robbery was staged by an eighteen-year-old ban dit in tha first national bank build ing yesterday it was so true to the screen thrillers that only two persons â€” the youthful desperado and the good-natured woman he robbed at the point of a pistol in her employer's office knew that it was a really truly sure enough robbery one of the scenes in the moving if not movie drama which gave it a farcical turn was enacted in the of fice of charles f norton & co on ! the tenth floor where the robber took refuge after ihe alarm was given mr wugc-il ' bt_*y__ng brother and two young and very pretty stenog raphers were in the office v.-hen the young bandit with his guns and para phernalia arrived they sat for an hour and a half under the cover of his weapons believing they were play ing a part for some funny reel only the arrival of the police dispelled the illusion who bov baxdit is henry j fernekes was the boy bandit he was eighteen years old last january he has been rooming at 1349 north la salle avenue he says his father is proprietor of a summer hotel at long lake valpa raiso ind the city directory how ever lists his mother as mrs llay fernekes widow of peter c fer nekes 2252 fremont street mrs fer nekes is said to have moved from that address the examiner on questioning young fernekes got from him the admission that his parents were the notorious pete and lizzie who were proprie tors of the village inn a hotel and cafe situated at 53 west erie street which was closed by the police about two years ago mrs fernekes ligured prominently during the police upheaval about that time in which a number of police heads were discharged from the de partment under sensational charges young fernekes who ls about 5 feet 3 inches tall slightly built and an innocent big brown-eyed boy in appearance says he was a pupil at the lakevlew high school for a term at the john marshall law school for a short term a clerk in the office of caswell & healy lawyers and real estate dealers and then with the in dependent pneumatic tool company on michigan avenue until a short time ago when he turned bandit bridegroom op two weeks two weeks ago he eloped to st joe mich and married lulu wood ward sixteen years old the daugh ter of herbert woodward of 13g west monroe street valparaiso ind with whom his wife is living this then is our hero who started j out yesterday with a little suitcase looking for adventure the suitcase contained two pistols â€” a magazine pistol of late pattern and a big revol ver a handkerchief that might be used as a mask cotton batting and strips of linen to make gags a long piece of rope some tools and a cam i era he drifted into the first national bank building as the first of the j tenants were arriving and began to stroll through the corridors looking j for the best place to rob disguised ix spectacles on the tenth floor he found the of fices of robert l north a real estate i dealer at no 1017 he saw miss ella j jones stenographer for mr north ' arrive miss jones is forty a trifle j given to embonpoint is good-natured : and looks it she entered the office of mr north to prepare for the w_rk ; of tl day she has been employed germans are driven back by russians on border teutons retreating al along austrian front says war of fice czar merges armies for stroke in gaiicia london sept 19 â€” the correspondent of the daily telegraph in rome telegraphs that he has learned ou high authority that six corps of german troops have been or dered fiom belgium and france to the russian border â– j ox d on . i sept 18 ~- ' the renter telegram compa ny has received from petrograd an official statement issued by the gen eral staff which says : on the front in east prussia i general rennenkampf has definite j ly arrested the german offensive at ! several points the germans are falling back all along the austrian front pur i suit of the enemy continues the russians have approached the defensive positions of siniava jaroslav and przemysl cossacks lead advance reports received from petrograd to-day say that the russians have gained important successes over the austrian rear guard the whole of j the austro-russiari border between | yusevoff and annapolis is reported to be overrun with cossacks who are leading the russian advance the russian army now in gaiicia ! will be left there to complete its work for according to a rome dis patch an army of 900,000 russians | is marching into central poland fol lowed by another army of 2,000,000 l while a third army also aggregating 2,000.000 is coming from more dis tant regions and will reach the front in october another rome dispatch i says the number of cannon captured j by the russians from the austrians i is now placed at 1,000 two armies merge the combined russian armies of i general ruzzky and general brouss ilolf according to petrograd dis patches to-day pressed relentlessly i against the beaten and disorganized | and in part disarmed forces of aus 1 tria west of the san river the austrians resisted with courage born of despair the fighting in that theater of war is necessarily slow business because of the nature of the swampy field it has prevented the austrians from ex tricating and making effective their artillery and on the other hand it has prevented the russians from following up their advantage as speedily as otherwise they would do attack _. i s'i'rian enter the russian forces are attacking the austrian center which is report ' ed to hold the line betw~een przemysl 1 and cracow efforts thus far to dis ' lodge the center have not succeeded ! but great losses have been inflicted ! on the austrians a dispatch from vienna says it is admitted that the russians j have occupied a part of the defenses south of przemysl but so far they have been unable to make any grave impression upon tl main d eases russian coat of anns battle of aisne told in official reports of foes allies progressing on right wing says french statement â– special cable to the examiner rj aris sept 18 â€” an official statement issued by ' the french war office at jl p m says there is no change in the situation except hat we have continued our progress on the left ping and that there is a general lull in the battle the afternoon announcement issued at s p __., said throughout the day of the 17th the battle con ontinued along the whole front from the oise to the woevre without important change in the situation at any point â€” on our left wing â€” on the heights north of the aisne we have made slight progress against certain points three offensive attacks undertaken by the germans against the british army have failed between craonne and rheims we ourselves have repulsed some extremely violent counter attacks made in the night the enemy tried in vain to take the offensive against rheims â€” at the center â€” from rheims to the argonne the enemy has strengthened himself by building important fortifications and has adopted a purely defensive attitude east of the argonne in the woevre district the situation is unchanged â€” on our right wing â€” in lorraine and the vosges the enemy occupies positions organized for defensive action near the frontier french coat â€¢/ arm germans advance slowly but surely berlin officials claim special cable to the examiner i rxerlix sept is by wireless via sayville r h i â€” official announcement was made at â– *â€”* headqua rters to-day that the german army is advancing si owly but surely in the battle which raging i n france the statement follows the battle between the oise and the meuse still continues there are sure indications that the enemy's forces are failing the french attempt to cut through the ger man right wing was broken down without no __________________ table exertion on the german side the german army is advancing slowly but surely a sortie from verdun on the right bank of the meuse was most easily repulsed the general staff states that all the german airships are coming up to expectations in long and dangerous flights some were damaged but all of them were repaired none was destroyed or captured by the enemy german coat of arms envoy to u.s asks denial of austrian army loss xew yore sept is 101 i editor Chicago examiner i have the honor to forward to you a statement 1 wish to make on the false news and rumors spread about the austrian campaign in ga liria and russian poland i should be very much obliged by your kindly jiviiuj it in the hearst papers the g reatest possible publicity yours very truly sgncd c dumba i and _,Â». austro-hungarian ambassador dr dumba's statement follows : â– com i to i most i utically i the i reports i via i london from i milan i a i open b ugen i peters i the austrian i and i to quote some i to come from i lost the i dead i prison i â€” â€” from russian poland succeeded m uniting and rallying for a new fight i do not think that any body endowed with a little com mon sense can for one moment believe that an army of 1,000,000 having lost 450,000 men should be able immediately to rally for a new tight according to official (?) st petersburg news the austrians wl>ile receding and hotly pur sued to lemberg had alresdy lost about 200,000 men there was hardly anybody left to tell the tale the steel forts of the first-class fortress of nlchail owsk had been silenced and stormed with incredible bravery by the russians in reality xichailowsk is a small village with 307 inhabitants where r.e centltuiod on 4th page 3d column continued on 7th page 2d cj:smn continued on 2d ge 3d column continued on 2d page 7th coluiein austrian coat of arms